xilinx research labs

Hi,

I am looking for the homepage of Xilinx Research Labs, but Google is
not helping me. Does anybody know if they even have a homepage. I'd
like to know what type of research they do at Xilinx, whether it is all
at the solid state and IC level, or whether they undertake higher level
algorithmic research as well.

Cheers
Porterboy

porterboy76@yahoo.com wrote:

> I am looking for the homepage of Xilinx Research Labs, but Google is
> not helping me. Does anybody know if they even have a homepage. I'd
> like to know what type of research they do at Xilinx, whether it is all
> at the solid state and IC level, or whether they undertake higher level
> algorithmic research as well.

Well, google showed:

http://www.xilinx.com/prs_rls/xil_corp/05104xlnx_xirlabs.htm

which, coupled with this:

http://www.xilinx.com/company/offices.htm

Says that one branch of their labs is:

Ireland
Xilinx Ireland
One Logic Dr.
Citywest Business Campus
Saggart, County Dublin
Ireland
Tel: (353) 1-464-0311
FAX: (353) 1-464-0324

I'd also reckon that their CA and CO sites might be a good bet.

Sl=E1n,

Peter K.

Hi Peter,

yes I saw those websites, but they don't actually specify what research
is done. For example there is no list of publications, or research
activities, as there is on other websites, eg. Bell-Labs etc. Maybe
they are scared Altera will jump on any info they make public? All I
found was this...

"The mission of Xilinx Research Labs is to carry out speculative
research to invent and discover technological solutions that create new
business opportunities for Xilinx, or significantly advance its current
business."

... which doesn't say much!

Cheers 
Porterboy

porterboy76@yahoo.com wrote:

> yes I saw those websites, but they don't actually specify what research
> is done. For example there is no list of publications, or research
> activities, as there is on other websites, eg. Bell-Labs etc. Maybe
> they are scared Altera will jump on any info they make public? All I
> found was this...
>
> "The mission of Xilinx Research Labs is to carry out speculative
> research to invent and discover technological solutions that create new
> business opportunities for Xilinx, or significantly advance its current
> business."
>
> ... which doesn't say much!

Yes, you're correct.

Try phoning; I'm not sure they'll respond, but you might get lucky. :-)

Ciao,

Peter K.

Peter K. wrote:
> porterboy76@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>
>>... which doesn't say much!
> 
> 
> Yes, you're correct.
> 
> Try phoning; I'm not sure they'll respond, but you might get lucky. :-)
> 

Why would they ???

They are a high tech business, not academic.

If they posted there research, their competitors could steal^H^H^H^H^H^H 
borrow their ideas.

Donald

<porterboy76@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Peter,
>
> yes I saw those websites, but they don't actually specify what research
> is done. For example there is no list of publications, or research
> activities, as there is on other websites, eg. Bell-Labs etc. Maybe

The days of Bell-Labs kind of institutions are over - you will be hard
pressed to find anything even close. I know IBM still maintains a research
facility that does a lot of basic research - maybe a handful of others.
It's really really hard for corporations to justify doing a lot of basic
research esp. when they work out the financials.

Anyways, a good indication of the kind of research a company does is to try
and look at their job openings and their requirements. I know that Xilinx
does a fair amount of research in the algorithmic side. Search for Chris
Dick - he is a senior researcher there and seems to publish a fair amount
(or atleast used to).

Cheers
Bhaskar

> they are scared Altera will jump on any info they make public? All I
> found was this...
>
> "The mission of Xilinx Research Labs is to carry out speculative
> research to invent and discover technological solutions that create new
> business opportunities for Xilinx, or significantly advance its current
> business."
>
> ... which doesn't say much!
>
> Cheers
> Porterboy
>

Donald wrote:

> Why would they ???
>
> They are a high tech business, not academic.

It's a publicly listed company.  They need to recruit research-oriented
people. They'll have a publicly distributable report about it, I'm
pretty sure.

> If they posted there research, their competitors could steal^H^H^H^H^H^H
> borrow their ideas.

:-) I'm pretty sure they're careful about that, too.

Ciao,

Peter K.

Bhaskar Thiagarajan wrote:
> The days of Bell-Labs kind of institutions are over - you will be hard
> pressed to find anything even close. 

Google is not far from the mark.

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porterboy76@yahoo.com wrote:

> I am looking for the homepage of Xilinx Research Labs, but Google is
> not helping me. Does anybody know if they even have a homepage. I'd
> like to know what type of research they do at Xilinx, whether it is all
> at the solid state and IC level, or whether they undertake higher level
> algorithmic research as well.

Post to comp.arch.fpga and as there.

-- glen

On 17 Nov 2005 06:23:59 -0800, porterboy76@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>yes I saw those websites, but they don't actually specify what research
>is done. For example there is no list of publications, or research
>activities, as there is on other websites, eg. Bell-Labs etc. Maybe
>they are scared Altera will jump on any info they make public? All I
>found was this...
>
>"The mission of Xilinx Research Labs is to carry out speculative
>research to invent and discover technological solutions that create new
>business opportunities for Xilinx, or significantly advance its current
>business."
>
>... which doesn't say much!

You can look at the sort of IP block sets that Xilinx is producing and
the markets that they target that use FPGAs in next-generation
products and anticipate what they might be working on.   The area I'm
most familiar with is communications, and in that case many
basestation solutions use FPGAs since they can be reprogrammed easily
(and basestations are comparatively not very cost sensitive).

So look at what 3GPPx is doing and WiMAX and whatever else and you can
get an idea of where they might be putting money.

That sort of work is considered development more than research by some
people, but when you're trying to get as efficient as possible in a
complex algorithm it can get pretty researchy.


Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org